Wellness and wildness in Leighton Buzzard for summer solstice festival

Rooted In – the organisation behind the festival – is the brainchild of events producer and wellbeing specialist Kerrie Duggan and language and yoga teacher Alice Fauvel, who both work in the wellbeing sector, and is taking place at Linslade Mews on Saturday June 20.

The first six hours of the festival from midday to 6pm are dedicated to wellness, with activities including a creators’ market, children’s stalls, a community art workshop, live music and record and tattoo flash sales.

The second six hours of the festival from 6pm to midnight will see the focus shift to wildness, with live music from the Deep Resonance DJ Collective.

Rooted In started as a way of bringing the community together, and the organisation has hosted free events including forest walks and picnic and drumming sessions.

Last year Kerrie hosted a free festival called Summer Drift alongside the CoLab, which was attended by more than 200 people, inspiring her to try something bigger and better.

Limited tickets are still available, for either the wellness or wildness parts of the day, or for the whole day, and are on sale through the Eventbrite platform.

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